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Amount of accumulated depreciation and amortization from plant, property, and equipment and right-of-use asset from finance lease, excluding lessor asset under operating lease.

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Amount, after accumulated depreciation and amortization, of property, plant, and equipment and finance lease right-of-use asset excluding lessor asset under operating lease.

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Amount, before accumulated depreciation and amortization, of property, plant, and equipment and finance lease right-of-use asset, excluding lessor asset under operating lease.

No definition available.

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Amount of acquisition of long-lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale. Examples include, but are not limited to, land, buildings, machinery and equipment, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Useful life of long lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Examples include, but not limited to, land, buildings, machinery and equipment, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment.

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